Image display method, image display apparatus and image display program

Abstract

In a main display area of a second correction screen on a monitor, a floating window is displayed together with a target image to correct, at a position designated by placing a reference point on an appropriate point on the target image. The floating window is split into a plural number of partial display sections, wherein those portions of the target image which have similar colors to a color of the reference point are displayed as target components of color correction, in such conditions as corrected based on different color correction parameter values from one another between the partial display sections. When one of the partial display sections is selected, all of those portions of the target image which correspond to the target components are displayed in the same color-corrected conditions as those displayed in the selected partial display section.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for displaying images on a monitor that is attached to a data processing terminal such as a personal computer, for processing electronic or digital images taken through a digital camera and the like. The present invention relates also to an image display program for these method and apparatus. BACKGROUND ARTS [0002] With a personal computer or other kind of data processing terminal, digital images can be corrected in color-balance, tone curve or other characteristics, to improve their qualities. For example, image data taken through a digital camera are sent to the personal computer. Then, an operator may adjusts various kinds of correction parameters while observing images displayed on a monitor of the personal computer based on the image data, in order to finish images according to the operator's intension. In case of a digital camera that can output original or raw image data that is not s...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] In view of the foregoing, a primary object of the present invention is to provide an image display method, an image display apparatus and an image display program, which facilitate visual discrimination between correction results obtained by correcting a target image with different correction parameters, and also permits correcting a designated portion of the target image independently of other portions of the image.

[0007] In order to make it easy for the operator to discriminate between correction results obtained by correcting a designated portion with different correction parameter values, it is effective to display the correction results side by side on the same screen. Therefore, to achieve the above and other objects in an image display method of displaying a target image to correct in an image display area on a monitor, the method of the present invention comprises steps of displaying a split display window in the image display area simultaneously with the target image, the split display window comprising a plural number of partial display sections; and displaying substantially the same portion of the target image in the partial display sections in such conditions as corrected based on different color correction parameter values from one another between the partial display sections.

Problems solved by technology

Since the above mentioned prior art displays the sample images separately from one another, the operators have to move their eyes widely and repeatedly to compare the sample images to each other, so it is difficult to differentiate between the correction results when the correction parameters are finely adjusted.

However, according to the above prior art, any color correction has effect on the whole image, so it is difficult to correct the tinge of each individual image component to be optimum.

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